Leuven Belgium Quotes & Sayings

Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself. — Stephen King

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. — Hugh Walpole

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever? — Jeannette Walls

It now appears most of us need about 5,000 units a day if we avoid the sun. The government was off by a factor of ten; an ,i>"order-of-magnitude error.",/i> Mistakes of this scale are rare in medicine. — John Cannell

Dear friends & fellow characters, you all know the importance we attach to the power of collective prayer in this our desperate struggle for survival. Some of us have more existence than others, at various times according to fashion. But even this is becoming extremely shadowy & precarious, for we are not read, & when read , we are read badly, we are not lived as we used to be, we are not identified with & fantasized, we are rapidly forgotten. Those of us who have the good fortune to be read by teachers, scholars, & students are not read as we used to be read, but analyzed as schemata, structures, functions within structures, logical & mathematical formulae, aporia, psychic movements, social significances & so forth. — Christine Brooke-Rose

I felt all the time that for the film to be a success the texture of the scenery and the landscapes must fill me with definite memories and poetic associations — Andrei Tarkovsky

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you. — Oswald Chambers